Hey guys, this summer has been insane for snake callouts etc. So many puffies and boomslang and rhinkals!!!This past week we got 4 harlequins...
At first there were three living quite happily for a couple of days in their containers awaiting release, we released two of them and kept one back to photograph... The next day we were called to catch another, so we put them in the container together for releasing that afternoon... With no problems for an hour or so, I walked past only to find them latched on to one another! Is this normal? I know they eat blind snakes but do they naturally eat eachother or other snakes?
I was hesitant to pull them apart as i might get bitten and also the worry was that i hurt them...but i took a tooth pick and used it to gently lift the ones jaw off, he then wanted to bite again, eventually i separated them, no harm done, they were both fine and released the next day...